2010-04-24 - 9:02 a.m.
Seems like this update thing is getting harder to do. I should be working on the multitudes of stuff I brought home with me, but just felt the need to catch up with the world. I just finished all my finance stuff, paying bills is my least favorite house-hold chore. Mostly cuz I can't ignore it like I have all the others...there's laundry to do and i'm just about out of dishes and my dining room table has disspapeared under the debris of my life.
The doggies made it to the vet and the dream of the fenced yard died with one sentence, "Pumpkin tested positive for heartworms." So now my poor baby is having to undergo the treatment. She's probably had them since I acquired her, this was just the first opportunity I'd had to get them to the vet. She spends most of her days locked in the hall bathroom because it's small and I don't have a crate for her. During the day she's mostly fine becuase I'm not home. At night when I do get home I let her out and we go for a stroll around the yard for her to do her business. Most nights I even bring her to bed with me because I have to sleep and she seems to be able to "sing" all night long.
Work is actually killing me...last week was a 66-hour week. This week I already know I have to forfiet my day off because of a scheduled meeting that I MUST attend. THis week we also process out of our jobs so that Monday when we come in, we come in as a new company. I have a badge and credit card to surrender, but that's about it. Sometime this week I have to attend a security outbrief and then the following week with have to attend travel training to learn the new way to do it since now I have to arrange and report on my own travel (I'm going to hate having to do that). Honestly, my calendar (aka my paper brain) doesn't have whitespace on it until mid June. By the time 4 July gets here, I'll be more than ready for it!
Yesterday I started planning my 50th birthday. I wanted to do something memorable, crazy, and something I've always wanted to do. I've decided to take the next 3 years and save up for a tandem sky dive on my birthday. It should be around $500 or so. In the meantime I need to lose 130 pounds. That will put me in the 150-160 range, which is where I belong, and make for a better experience and just a better quality of life all around. Besides at near 300, I doubt they'd let me participate in a tandem jump. You can get video and pictures from your jump too, which of course I want. The video is on VHS, but a friend's daughter does video editing and I'm going to turn it over to her and pay her to professionally edit it and put it on DVD. It's just something I think will be a hoot to look at when I'm 80...of course who knows what 80 will bring. I felt really good after I'd decided on it too. This could be the goad I've needed all along to get the healthful lifestyle thing on track and to stick. If I make it, I plan on rounding up friends and family and making a day of it. To that end, on the list of things to accomplish is to check out this Anytime Fitness place near the house. I need this so bad. Right now I get 0 exercise on a regular basis, and I remember how good I felt in general and about myself when I worked out regularly.
We did get a slight increase from the new company, but that was only because we're actually losing a week of sick leave (we currently get 2, they only give 1). I'd have preferred to be bumped by the full week's pay, but since they didn't have to do anything I'll take what they gave me. It's taken me nearly 22 years (Sept makes 22) to get this close to 6-figure salary. Maybe in 22 more I'll actually be there.
Well I at least ought to put some clothes on...I'm still in my jammies. Had a Luna bar and diet coke for breakfast cuz I didn't feel like being in the kitchen. I'm going to have to suck it up and clean that kitchen this weekend tho...I refuse to stoop to paper plates.
